As we descend deeper into the days of Darkness, let's leave November with this in mind...
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
If You Were Here
Okay, this was supposed to be posted a couple of weeks ago--but, hey, it's good to have something in your back pocket.
Anyway, emails were aflame at that time amongst my female crew about which movie is better, Pretty in Pink or Sixteen Candles.
Now, PiP initially comes out on top because, well, Duckie. Duh. Not to mention, Andie (okay, also because of her name) works in a super-cool record store just like Cut Corner Records (, and wears perfectly mis-matched and utterly cool vintage or handmade clothes and hats.
But then the spectre of the ending looms: the fact that Andie goes stag to prom, then runs off with Blane (the proto-asshole rich guy name, and let's not talk about the fact that he was a floppy-haired wimp that, inexplicably, my friend Robin lurrrved) and leaves poor Duckie with tears running down onto his bolo tie. Let's just say there's a lot of people who'd snap up the version of PiP with the original, Andie-chooses-Duckie ending faster than Britney scrambling for a loose Cheeto under the sofa.
While Pretty in Pink, then, is as problematic as a Shakespeare Problem Play, Sixteen Candles is as uncomplicated and sentimentally entertaining as Barefoot in the Park. It features not just one, but two young Cusacks, was filmed in its actual location in north suburban Chicago (PiP was set in Chicago but filmed in LA), and was the most quotable movie until, well, 1985, when The Breakfast Club came out.
But this is not a contest between BC and SC; we were discussing the merits of the latter and Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles, without a doubt, has a trump card.
And that card's the king of hearts: Jake Ryan.
Need I say more?
Anyway, emails were aflame at that time amongst my female crew about which movie is better, Pretty in Pink or Sixteen Candles.
Now, PiP initially comes out on top because, well, Duckie. Duh. Not to mention, Andie (okay, also because of her name) works in a super-cool record store just like Cut Corner Records (, and wears perfectly mis-matched and utterly cool vintage or handmade clothes and hats.
But then the spectre of the ending looms: the fact that Andie goes stag to prom, then runs off with Blane (the proto-asshole rich guy name, and let's not talk about the fact that he was a floppy-haired wimp that, inexplicably, my friend Robin lurrrved) and leaves poor Duckie with tears running down onto his bolo tie. Let's just say there's a lot of people who'd snap up the version of PiP with the original, Andie-chooses-Duckie ending faster than Britney scrambling for a loose Cheeto under the sofa.
While Pretty in Pink, then, is as problematic as a Shakespeare Problem Play, Sixteen Candles is as uncomplicated and sentimentally entertaining as Barefoot in the Park. It features not just one, but two young Cusacks, was filmed in its actual location in north suburban Chicago (PiP was set in Chicago but filmed in LA), and was the most quotable movie until, well, 1985, when The Breakfast Club came out.
But this is not a contest between BC and SC; we were discussing the merits of the latter and Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles, without a doubt, has a trump card.
And that card's the king of hearts: Jake Ryan.
Need I say more?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Now When I Die, Don't Think I'm A Nut
In honor of Steve Martin's new autobiography (and man, do I want to find a signing and get a copy autographed, I just realized), a bit from A Wild and Crazy Guy. Which I have on vinyl, somewhere. Time to visit the iMonster again... Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath:
I promise to be different!
(audience repeats)
I promise to be unique!
I promise to be different!
(audience repeats)
I promise to be unique!
(audience repeats)
I promise not to repeat things other people say!
(audience laughs, repeats)
Good!
Monday, November 26, 2007
And When I Wave I Lose The Time I Save
Whew. It's been hard to keep up with this daily posting.
I mean, I'm not saying I've been back-dating them, or anything.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Doesn't Anybody Stay In One Place Anymore?
View from Sassy Springs Farm, November 22Our last Thanksgiving here...
Friday, November 23, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Give A Little Bit
These were the items given to the studio audience (located this year in Macon, GA, where the Oprah Winfrey Show has consistently received its highest ratings) on the 2007 edition of Oprah's Favorite Things:
SAMSUNG PROGRESSIVE HD CAMCORDER SC-HMX10C $799.99
UGG® AUSTRALIA CLASSIC CROCHET TALL BOOT $120
TOYWATCH $150-$1500
PERFECT ENDINGS CUPCAKES FROM WILLIAMS-SONOMA $59 (set of 9)
MELAMINE BOWLS, MEASURING CUPS AND SPOONS FROM WILLIAMS-SONOMA Bowls $32; Measuring Cups and Spoons Set $18
THE ARTISAN® STAND MIXER FROM KITCHENAID HOME APPLIANCES $349.99
THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S PLANET EARTH DVD SET $59.95
KAI BODY BUTTER and BODY BUFFER $28; $55
CLARISONIC SKIN CARE SYSTEM $195
CLAUS PORTO SOAPS FROM LAFCO NEW YORK $42 set of 3
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH BY KEN FOLLETT $24.95
BREVILLE IKON PANINI PRESS FROM WILLIAMS-SONOMA $99.95
HDTV REFRIGERATOR WITH WEATHER AND INFO CENTER FROM LG ELECTRONICS $3,799
CIAO BELLA BLOOD ORANGE SORBETTO $4.99/pint
RACHEL PALLY SWING TURTLENECK AND SAILOR PANTS $141; $194
SCRABBLE PREMIER EDITION FROM HASBRO $70
UNITED ARTISTS 90TH ANNIVERSARY PRESTIGE COLLECTION $869.98
SHAKLEE GET CLEAN™ STARTER KIT $89.60
O'S GUIDE TO LIFE $29.95
JOSH GROBAN'S NOEL CD $12.99
GRAND TOTAL: $7,105.33
...which would also purchase two semesters of tuition at a large state university (in-state tuition) like, say, the University of Wisconsin. Or send 50,000 lbs of food via Feed the Children to feed a family of four for, well, years.
Or it would buy 107 fresh Balsam Fir Christmas trees, or 130 smoked whole 11-12 lb turkeys ordered from Nueske's meats in Wittenberg, WI. That would be quite a holiday spread for a lot of folks.
Heck, that number of dollars could likely build--or at least start--a house for someone who really needs it.
SAMSUNG PROGRESSIVE HD CAMCORDER SC-HMX10C $799.99
UGG® AUSTRALIA CLASSIC CROCHET TALL BOOT $120
TOYWATCH $150-$1500
PERFECT ENDINGS CUPCAKES FROM WILLIAMS-SONOMA $59 (set of 9)
MELAMINE BOWLS, MEASURING CUPS AND SPOONS FROM WILLIAMS-SONOMA Bowls $32; Measuring Cups and Spoons Set $18
THE ARTISAN® STAND MIXER FROM KITCHENAID HOME APPLIANCES $349.99
THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S PLANET EARTH DVD SET $59.95
KAI BODY BUTTER and BODY BUFFER $28; $55
CLARISONIC SKIN CARE SYSTEM $195
CLAUS PORTO SOAPS FROM LAFCO NEW YORK $42 set of 3
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH BY KEN FOLLETT $24.95
BREVILLE IKON PANINI PRESS FROM WILLIAMS-SONOMA $99.95
HDTV REFRIGERATOR WITH WEATHER AND INFO CENTER FROM LG ELECTRONICS $3,799
CIAO BELLA BLOOD ORANGE SORBETTO $4.99/pint
RACHEL PALLY SWING TURTLENECK AND SAILOR PANTS $141; $194
SCRABBLE PREMIER EDITION FROM HASBRO $70
UNITED ARTISTS 90TH ANNIVERSARY PRESTIGE COLLECTION $869.98
SHAKLEE GET CLEAN™ STARTER KIT $89.60
O'S GUIDE TO LIFE $29.95
JOSH GROBAN'S NOEL CD $12.99
GRAND TOTAL: $7,105.33
...which would also purchase two semesters of tuition at a large state university (in-state tuition) like, say, the University of Wisconsin. Or send 50,000 lbs of food via Feed the Children to feed a family of four for, well, years.
Or it would buy 107 fresh Balsam Fir Christmas trees, or 130 smoked whole 11-12 lb turkeys ordered from Nueske's meats in Wittenberg, WI. That would be quite a holiday spread for a lot of folks.
Heck, that number of dollars could likely build--or at least start--a house for someone who really needs it.
Monday, November 19, 2007
How To Become Number One In A Hot Body Show
There once was a girl named BeverleeWho had such a sweet singing voice, you see
In church choir she would
Want to sing "push it good"
But they would not let her be Salt-n-Pepa-ry
This limerick brought to you by special request from its saucy subject
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Want Something That Keep Me Easy
I don't know why, but Purple Drank has been on my mind for the past two weeks since I heard of it.
It's been reported that Britney Spears, among her other publicly-displayed vices and ill-advised undergarmentless- and child-driving adventures, enjoys chillin' with something called Purple Drank, basically a colorful mixture of the prescription cough syrup your mom would give you when you were eight and barking with the croup all night and Sprite (or diet Sprite in its calorie-conscious version), served, apparently, in a Styrofoam cup (you know, to keep it cold).
Specifically, it's codeine to chill ya shit out and promethazine to roll ya brain (and Sprite for fizz, I guess), favored by the hip-hop community out of the South, like in Atlanta, Houston, and New Orleans. Gin and juice it's not, immortalized in a song by Frayser Boy ("I got dat drank, that purple drank"), who note that it makes you "movin' leanin' slow seemin'." You also drink--er, drank?--it while you're "grippin grain," which was harder to look up but I think means grasping your faux wood-grain steering wheel and leaning to the right while you drive. Or drizive.
Purple Drank is known by variety of other monikers: Southern Lean, Purple Tonic, Texas Tea, Memphis Mud, and--my favorite--Sizzurp. As in "Sippin On Some Sizzurp" by Three 6 Mafia. You can perceive in the lyrics ("Sexy thang on my arm, cup of drank in my palm") hints of the artistic vision would bring them the Academy Award only six years later.
But I think the song's video sheds some light on what actually sipping Purple Drank is like.
It means you may look and/or feel like an animated, plaque covered tooth dancing on some "gums" and eating lots of sugar.
Oh, and it reminds me: I gotta call the dentist. I think I have a cavity.
It's been reported that Britney Spears, among her other publicly-displayed vices and ill-advised undergarmentless- and child-driving adventures, enjoys chillin' with something called Purple Drank, basically a colorful mixture of the prescription cough syrup your mom would give you when you were eight and barking with the croup all night and Sprite (or diet Sprite in its calorie-conscious version), served, apparently, in a Styrofoam cup (you know, to keep it cold).
Specifically, it's codeine to chill ya shit out and promethazine to roll ya brain (and Sprite for fizz, I guess), favored by the hip-hop community out of the South, like in Atlanta, Houston, and New Orleans. Gin and juice it's not, immortalized in a song by Frayser Boy ("I got dat drank, that purple drank"), who note that it makes you "movin' leanin' slow seemin'." You also drink--er, drank?--it while you're "grippin grain," which was harder to look up but I think means grasping your faux wood-grain steering wheel and leaning to the right while you drive. Or drizive.
Purple Drank is known by variety of other monikers: Southern Lean, Purple Tonic, Texas Tea, Memphis Mud, and--my favorite--Sizzurp. As in "Sippin On Some Sizzurp" by Three 6 Mafia. You can perceive in the lyrics ("Sexy thang on my arm, cup of drank in my palm") hints of the artistic vision would bring them the Academy Award only six years later.
But I think the song's video sheds some light on what actually sipping Purple Drank is like.
It means you may look and/or feel like an animated, plaque covered tooth dancing on some "gums" and eating lots of sugar.
Oh, and it reminds me: I gotta call the dentist. I think I have a cavity.
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